Background Research on patient care has identified substantial variations in the quality and
safety of healthcare and the considerable risks of iatrogenic harm as significant issues …

Health information technology (health IT) has potential to improve patient safety but its
implementation and use has led to unintended consequences and new safety concerns. A …

Evidence is emerging that certain technologies such as computerized provider order entry
may reduce the likelihood of patient harm. However, many technologies that should reduce …

We identify and describe nine key, short-term, challenges to help healthcare organizations,
health information technology developers, researchers, policymakers, and funders focus …

Background There is considerable international interest in exploiting the potential of digital
solutions to enhance the quality and safety of health care. Implementations of transformative …

The use of novel health information technology provides avenues for potentially significant
patient benefit. However, it is also timely to take a step back and to consider whether the use …

Objective: The authors sought to identify ways in which the use of general practice computer
systems could be improved to enhance safety in primary care. Design: Qualitative study …

Healthcare safety is the product of many interrelated parts of the health system that change
over time, so efforts to improve safety also need to evolve and modernise to pre-empt …

Research in the area of health technology safety has demonstrated that technology may
both improve patient safety and introduce new types of technology-induced errors. Thus …

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